wetlands shrink in Changsha , Hunan

China is facing environment problems. Changsha city, of Hunan province in South China, once had much more wetlands than now. The photos of following show how it happened. In the dusk , a fisherman is collecting his fishnet in the Songya Lake in Xingsha of Changsha city of Hunan Province, in July 2012. This year, the lake shrinks to a smaller range; by contrast, the surrounding real estates grow bigger, and the traces of wild birds are gone. (pic 01 source :rednet.cn)

In the year 2011, Pan Xuebing, a photographer who taking photos for birds took the picture. Nowadays, it is difficult to find the kind of birds flying over beautiful wetlands, so people can only imagine the scene in the city. (pic 02 source :rednet.cn)

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